Disciplines — Industrial Design
AI, BUT PHYSICAL. 2026.
A physical product with AI at its core
Entry
Free
Prize
£500
Closes in
35days04hours06minutes02seconds
Design a physical product that uses AI to create a genuinely new and meaningful human experience. Move beyond the screen. Reimagine how people could interact with intelligence through physical form, movement, sound, material, space and touch. AI, BUT PHYSICAL. What happens when intelligence becomes something you can actually interact with?
- Entry
- Free
- Prize
- £500
- Deadline
- September 30th
- Results
- October 30th
Why enter
Value beyond the prize
Winning is one outcome. Most entrants join for something else: a finished piece of work, a public project, and a reason to keep building.
1
A finished portfolio piece
The brief gives you a deadline, constraints and a clear audience. Treat it as a real commission.
2
Public archive placement
Paid entries can be published in the project archive, linked to your creative profile and shared by discipline.
3
Independent review
Every competition is judged independently and in-house by Design Something. Submissions are scored anonymously against the published criteria and their weightings, and the scores are aggregated to produce the ranking.
Judging
What the industrial design brief rewards
Every competition is judged independently and in-house by Design Something. Submissions are scored anonymously against the published criteria and their weightings, and the scores are aggregated to produce the ranking.
- 01A single object, resolved rather than a family of concepts
- 02Evidence of the manufacturing decision behind the form
- 03Honest material and process choices
What you submit
- Three to eight images
- One 150-word rationale
- Optional dimensioned view
Creatives
Industrial Design on the platform
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